Examples

And then be passed, and the flood of primordial life rolled back again, sweeping his handiwork away-the weeds and the forest inundated his fields, the beasts of prey swept over his flocks, and now there are wolves on the Cliff House beach.

She was obliged to an unwelcome intimacy with his body, an acquaintance that awoke memories she had with great difficulty put away-the feel of his knee pushing her thighs apart, the rough joviality of his touch between her legs, the sun-bleached blond hairs that curled crisply on his thighs and forearms, the unwashed, musky male smell of him.

At night, deep in the forest, in lean-tos Henrik showed them to build-but without fires to give their positions away-the five and three women of Henrik's group told little stories of the r ance to lend themselves courage.